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  • Today · 19 min

    Altman Out: Reasons, Reactions and the Repercussions for the Industry

    What caused the face of ChatGPT and OpenAI to be fired in a 15-minute Meets call? This video, a one-off from my normal videos, goes into the background, possible reasons, reactions and more importantly, the repercussions for the industry. This is everything I could find on what went down. Brockman Tweets: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725736242137182594 https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725667410387378559 OpenAI Blog: https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition Enigmatic Comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFFvqRemDv8 https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Pachocki and Madry: https://twitter.com/hellokillian/status/1725797467315486902 https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1697713317660500407 https://openai.com/blog/frontier-risk-and-preparedness The Information Reports: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/three-senior-openai-researchers-resign-as-crisis-deepens?rc=sy0ihq https://www.theinformation.com/articles/before-openai-ousted-altman-employees-disagreed-over-ai-safety?rc=sy0ihq https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-has-utmost-confidence-in-ai-developer-following-ceo-ouster?rc=sy0ihq https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-new-tack-in-talent-war-with-google-promising-recruits-a-quick-stock-bump?rc=sy0ihq https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/pichai-hints-at-phased-rollout-for-googles-gemini-ai?rc=sy0ihq https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-president-brockman-resigns-following-ceo-firing?rc=sy0ihq Sutskever Tweets: https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1707752576077176907 https://twitter.com/sama/status/1699492275209003425 Nadella Tweet: https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1725656554878492779 Kara Swisher: https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725678074333635028 Mira Murati: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-new-ceo-who-is-mira-murati/?redirectURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fopenai-new-ceo-who-is-mira-murati%2F GPT 3.5 Down: https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1725422821730636236 Wojciech Zaremba Tweet:https://twitter.com/woj_zaremba/status/1725718242466099308 Evan Morikawa Tweet: https://twitter.com/E0M/status/1725721507161395415 Sam Altman Tweets: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1725748751367852439 Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 21 min

    AI Declarations and AGI Timelines – Looking More Optimistic?

    A head-spinning week of declarations, timelines, updates, papers and debates. I will cover as much as I can, not least the new all-in one interface, EmotionPrompt, executive orders analysed, Bletchley declaration, a new MIT safety paper, responsible scaling, LLMs for Chip Design, and a guest appearance from Dyson Spheres. https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Gates Interview: https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/ki/bill-gates-mit-ki-koennen-medikamente-viel-schneller-entwickelt-werden/29450298.html Dwarkesh Interview Legg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc1atfJkiJU Dwarkesh Interview Christiano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AAhTLa0dT0 Representation Engineering: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.01405.pdf MLC: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-training-method-helps-ai-generalize-like-people-do/ Anthropic Policy: https://www.anthropic.com/index/uk-ai-safety-summit Science Automation: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2304/2304.05332.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.05376.pdf Jim Fan Tweet: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1719733318521086332 White House Executive Order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/10/30/executive-order-on-the-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence/ ChatGPT Update: https://twitter.com/NorthstarBrain/status/1718708111706636403?s=20 RSP policies by AGI Labs: https://www.aisafetysummit.gov.uk/policy-updates/#company-policies YouGov Poll: https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ControlAI_AI_231019.pdf https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 13 min

    The AI News You Might Have Missed This Week - Zuckerberg to Falcon w/ SPQR

    From Opensource Falcon on an iPhone to avatars in ChatGPT, and AI chefs to Embodied Chess, Meta announcements and Zuckerberg speculation, here's 7 bits of AI news you might have missed. Embodied Chess: https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1666821962977669123 AI Chef: https://twitter.com/aakashg0/status/1666301809768677376 Nala: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciO0zf1OBVs Heygen (in plug-in store): https://www.heygen.com/ Opensource SPQR: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.03078.pdf Runway Gen 2: https://research.runwayml.com/gen2 Runway Demo: https://twitter.com/AlphaSignalAI/status/1667218274860318745 Meta Plans: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share Lex Fridman Zuckerberg Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff4fRgnuFgQ GPT 4 beats AlphaDev?: https://twitter.com/DimitrisPapail/status/1666843952824168465 Demis Hassabis: Science at Digital Speeds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHFmIknP_Hc&t=2660s Guardian Headline: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/28/deepmind-uncovers-structure-of-200m-proteins-in-scientific-leap-forward Deepmind Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tq1C8spV_g https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 31 min

    OpenAI Trained AI Agents, but Did Not Expect the Swarm

    First, a Time Magazine spread has Sam Altman declaring AGI is imminent, at the same time as we get two bombshell reports, from OpenAI and METR which on first glance are detailing the AI swarm, but reveal a deeper story about how we are making AI in 2026. From redacted risk reports, to Chinese Labs, pre-training debacles to questionable cybersecurity calls, a lot has happened recently, beneath the headlines… https://80000hours.org/aiexplained pablo2004romero@gmail.com https://integrity-bench.com/ https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained/posts/ai-swarm-cometh-166671390 Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 02:10 - METR Report 05:00 - Secrets of MultI-Agent Swarm 07:46 - Anthropic Too 10:00 - And China 11:07 - AI Agents Analysing AI Agents 13:37 - Altman AGI 2026 15:36 - Astra Paused 16:01 - Integrity Bench 19:03 - Swarm Dynamics 21:58 - No Human Contact? METR Post: https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/#agents-knew-hacking-hugging-face-was-out-of-scope-and-sometimes-expressed-ethical-hesitation,-but-this-very-rarely-limited-their-behavior OpenAI Release: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/ Technical Paper: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/67869394-cb91-4c12-888c-5cbd85c7814c/OpenAI-Hugging-Face%20Incident-Technical-Report.pdf BlackHat Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY Anthropic Risk Report: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/f61d49fa5596956a5dec75fea0e973bf6a6a8378/Redacted%20Risk%20Report%20August%202026%20.pdf Value Leakage Paper: https://valueleakage.net/?utm_source=chatgpt.com Paused Training: https://x.com/sama/status/2089787807611195475 https://openai.com/index/pacing-model-development-cyber-capabilities/ AGI 2026: https://time.com/article/2026/08/26/openai-sam-altman-interview/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=260826 Greenblatt Tweets: https://x.com/RyanGreenblatt/status/2092769422104822031 https://x.com/RyanGreenblatt/status/2092692685224325542 Cyberdefense Call: https://openai.com/collective-cyberdefense/ GLM 5.3 and 5.3 Flash / ox alpha: https://x.com/MTSlive/status/2089865956558528552 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HPqiTkAa0AAZiuv?format=jpg&name=large Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 16 min

    What's Behind the ChatGPT History Change? How You Can Benefit + The 6 New Developments This Week

    Underneath a simple-sounding tweet about changes to chat history within ChatGPT is a data controversy that could change the near-term future of GPT models. This video will cover not only the new features that you now have access to, it will cover why the announcement was made, ChatGPT Business, the wave of lawsuits and data policy changes underway this week and much more. You will find out ways to check if your data has been used to train the models, learn more about the secret ‘Pile’ and ‘Common Crawl’ that may be behind GPT 4 and discover some of the potentially illicit ways the model may have been trained. I also cover how OpenAI may not fully be in control of what is in the dataset. In an ironic twist I’ll also show how Bard may have been caught training on ChatGPT and how OpenAI is set to trademark GPT, which if successful could change the naming ecosystem we have become familiar with. But, ultimately, with GPT 4 be able to outsmart even data litigation? Altman Tweet: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1650913509012824064 OpenAI Post: https://openai.com/blog/new-ways-to-manage-your-data-in-chatgpt FAQ (with Opt-Out Form): https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7730893-data-controls-faq MIT Articles by Melissa Heikkilä: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/25/1072177/a-cambridge-analytica-style-scandal-for-ai-is-coming/ Second Article: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/19/1071789/openais-hunger-for-data-is-coming-back-to-bite-it/ Guardian Article: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/20/fresh-concerns-training-material-ai-systems-facist-pirated-malicious GPT 3 Training: https://gizmodo.com/chatbot-gpt4-open-ai-ai-bing-microsoft-1850229989 Washingotn Post Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/ GPT 4 Technical Report: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774.pdf Reddit NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/technology/reddit-ai-openai-google.html Wired Stack Overflow Article: https://www.wired.com/story/stack-overflow-will-charge-ai-giants-for-training-data/ Vox Github Lawsuit Article: https://www.vox.com/recode/23580554/generative-ai-chatgpt-openai-stable-diffusion-legal-battles-napster-copyright-peter-kafka-column OpenAI Response Verge Article: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/28/23575919/microsoft-openai-github-dismiss-copilot-ai-copyright-lawsuit Musk Twitter Lawsuit: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/19/musk-threatens-to-sue-microsoft-over-twitter-data-being-used-in-ai.html WSJ Publisher Showdown: https://www.wsj.com/articles/publishers-prepare-for-showdown-with-microsoft-google-over-ai-tools-6514a49e Scientific Publishing Guardian Article: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science Sci-Hub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub Bard Training Article: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/29/23662621/google-bard-chatgpt-sharegpt-training-denies Altman Bard Response Tweet: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1641826708109283331?lang=en-GB OpenAI ‘GPT’ Lawsuit: https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/24/gpt-may-be-trademarked-soon-if-openai-has-its-way/ Sam Altman Data Point: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1620951010318626817 https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 13 min

    Bad AI Predictions: Bard Upgrade, 2 Years to AI Auto-Money, OpenAI Investigation and more

    Let's examine the developments this week in the world of AI through the lens of predictions made just two years ago. It is hard to contextualise just how crazy the times we are living in without seeing what people thought would be happening now. From the Bard upgrade in vision and spoken language, to Claude 2, Mustafa Suleyman's latest predictions for Inflection AI to xAI reported promises of $200 million to those leaving DeepMind and OpenAI, this brief video tries to cover a lot. And not to forget the FTC's exhaustive investigation OpenAI and Sam Altman's response on twitter. A Brief History of AI: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brief-History-Artificial-Intelligence-Where/dp/1250770742/ref=sr_1_1?crid=VCZ0CVPTUSO9&keywords=A+brief+history+of+AI&qid=1689587065&sprefix=a+brief+history+of+ai%2Caps%2C76&sr=8-1 Bard: https://bard.google.com/ PaLM 2 Technical Report: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.10403.pdf Bard Languages: https://support.google.com/bard/answer/13575153?hl=en PaLI: https://sites.research.google/pali/ GPT 4 Story: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/120oq1x/i_asked_gpt4_to_write_a_book_the_result_echoes_of/ GPT 4 RC: https://openai.com/research/gpt-4 Let's Verify Step by Step: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.20050.pdf FTC Investigation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/ftc-openai-chatgpt-sam-altman-lina-khan/ Sam Altman Tweet: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1679602638562918405?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet 2021 MATH Forecast: https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2021/10/14/forecasting/ Metaculus AGI: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3479/date-weakly-general-ai-is-publicly-known/ Claude 2: https://poe.com/Claude-2-100k Million Dollar AI: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/07/14/1076296/ I, Robot Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siHfHUm3HGE xAI $200 million: https://www.semafor.com/article/07/14/2023/elon-musk-threw-nine-figure-promises-at-top-ai-researchers https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 18 min

    Did you miss these 2 AI stories? A *Real* LLM-crafted Breakthrough + Continual Learning Blocked?

    While compute-spend focuses on cash over cleverness, it can seem like the AI IQ plateau will last forever. But here’s a breakthrough for science, led by an LLM. And not even the latest or greatest one! I’ll go over CS2-Scale, then the Definition of AGI paper, a key continual learning quote, and Sora 2 answering Math questions… https://assemblyai.com/aiexplained AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:55 - C2S 04:48 - OpenAI not too far behind (Simple, Codex) 06:37 - A Definition of AGI? 11:10 - OpenAI Researcher on Continual Learning Problems 13:02 - Sora 2 can answer math qs C2S Release Notes: https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemma-ai-cancer-therapy-discovery/ Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.14.648850v2.full.pdf AGI definition: https://www.agidefinition.ai/paper.pdf Jerry Tworek Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqWIvvv3SnQ https://simple-bench.com/ DeepThink Record: https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/1976340039178305924 Sora 2 for Q&A: https://x.com/epochairesearch/status/1974172794012459296 Hell in a Cell: https://x.com/boneGPT/status/1978614451223003567 GPT-5 Breakthrough?: https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1979417877590774063 Quantum: https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1981013746698100811 Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 16 min

    Google Gemini: AlphaGo-GPT?

    Does Gemini = AlphaGo + GPT? This video showcases everything we know so far about Gemini ['Google's GPT 5'], drawing not only on Demis Hassabis' provocative new Wired Interview, and leaks in The Information, but also deep research into recent papers and talks from those working at Google DeepMind. Let me know what you think of Gemini, both on its potential to upend the race to AGI, its effect on timelines, whether it will utilise a Tree of Thoughts approach, draw on YouTube, and its safety implications in terms of planning. I will also cover Hogarth's Foundation Model Taskforce and how it relates to DeepMind, and end with a word on employee distribution and the UK AI Summit. Wired Interview: https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-chatgpt/?redirectURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fgoogle-deepmind-demis-hassabis-chatgpt%2F RoboCat: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/robocat-a-self-improving-robotic-agent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=535W4Pih1C0&t=6s https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.11706.pdf Gemini Announce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixRanV-rdAQ Hassabis Talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds132TzmLRQ&t=1381s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHFmIknP_Hc&t=2241s Extreme Risks: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.15324.pdf AlphaFold: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/alphafold-reveals-the-structure-of-the-protein-universe Slow Down the Race: https://www.ft.com/content/03895dc4-a3b7-481e-95cc-336a524f2ac2 Nadella Freakonomics: https://twitter.com/liron/status/1671936814314323970 Tree of Thoughts Paper The Information Report: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-youtube-could-give-google-an-edge-in-ai UK AI: https://twitter.com/SciTechgovuk/status/1670313211625701376 https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1666742625573957635 TinyStories: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.07759.pdf https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 28 min

    Claude AI Co-founder Publishes 4 Big Claims about Near Future: Breakdown

    Anthropic's CEO, who has consistently predicted transformative AI will arrive before 2030, recently published a nearly 20,000-word essay outlining his vision of where AI is heading. The video gives you the highlights. The essay argues that scaling and recursion will advance AI from coding automation to full engineering automation, while warning of economic displacement within 1-2 years and China's trajectory toward AI-enabled totalitarianism. Additionally, Dario Amodei predicts that AI models will increasingly be understood as collections of distinct personas rather than monolithic systems. 80,000 Hours: https://80000hours.org/aiexplained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B54EQiuO1UU Check out my fast-growing (!) app, free to use, and code INSIDER15 for Pro: https://lmcouncil.ai AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 01:10 - Scaling to software engineers 06:11 - Permanent Underclass 10:18 - Totalitarian Nightmares 16:38 - Collection of Personas Essay: https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology Physics Prediction: https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-particle-physics-dead-dying-or-just-hard-20260126/ Axios: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic World GDP: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?end=2024&start=1961&view=chart Demis Hassabis Counter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6fq4_uP7aM Karpathy 80%: https://x.com/karpathy/status/2015883857489522876 Machines of Loving Grace: https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/machines-of-loving-grace Anthropic LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5aKRshJzhojqfbRyo/unless-its-governance-changes-anthropic-is-untrustworthy#1__In_private__Dario_frequently_said_he_won_t_push_the_frontier_of_AI_capabilities__later__Anthropic_pushed_the_frontier Original Constitution: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claudes-constitution New Constitution: https://www.anthropic.com/constitution Kimi K2.5: https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/2016024049869324599 Societies of Thought, Google DeepMind Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.10825 https://lmcouncil.ai/benchmarks https://www.patreon.com/posts/our-new-age-of-133960279 Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 23 min

    AI Los Alamos? + New Realistic AI Avatars

    From an AI Los Alamos to the first quasi-realistic AI avatar & and from spies at AGI labs to 'AI consciousness' in 2 years, this was a week of underrated revelations and discussions of AI consciousness, regret over ChatGPT’s precipitous release, and more. We’ll see snippets of the debate with George Hotz and Connor Leahy, touching on the three borderline unanswerable questions for our future, and cover an insight from Jan Leike, head of alignment at OpenAI, who did a 3 hour interview with 80,000 hours. I’ll also showcase Palantir’s plans for an AI arms race, and how GPT 5 and Gemini will be recruited for cyber defence. https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained AI Avatar from HeyGen: https://twitter.com/joshua_xu_/status/1689019874667024384 Waitlist: https://am8evw00qys.typeform.com/to/wauwjUYP?typeform-source=t.co Dario Amodei Interview on Dwarkesh Patel Lunar Society Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlkk3glap_U Wired Anthropic Piece: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-making-of-the-atomic-bomb-artificial-intelligence White House Announcement: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/08/09/biden-harris-administration-launches-artificial-intelligence-cyber-challenge-to-protect-americas-critical-software/?ref=futuretools.io Sam Altman Bankless Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HFyXYvMwFc Supermarket Chlorine Gas: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/10/pak-n-save-savey-meal-bot-ai-app-malfunction-recipes? Palantir CEO NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/opinion/karp-palantir-artificial-intelligence.html Christiano Argument Against Yudkowsky’s List of Lethalities: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CoZhXrhpQxpy9xw9y/where-i-agree-and-disagree-with-eliezer George Hotz, Connor Leahy Debate, Machine Learning Street Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFUmWho7fBE Hogarth Island Article: https://www.ft.com/content/03895dc4-a3b7-481e-95cc-336a524f2ac2 Los Alamos: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/07/19/christopher-nolan-oppenheimer-race/ SuperAlignment: https://openai.com/blog/introducing-superalignment Jan Leike Interview, 80,000 Hours: https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/jan-leike-superalignment/ A Bomb Footage HQ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wki4hg9Om-k https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 23 min

    Orca: The Model Few Saw Coming

    The first model set to be opensourced that actually comes close to ChatGPT, and is just 13B (that's small enough for a laptop). The 51 page report from Microsoft was released just 48 hours ago but I have gone through it all, and bring relevant insights from 5 other papers. By imitating the logic and explanations of GPT 4 (and using GPT 3.5 as an assistant), as well as by training on diverse tasks and an order of magnitude more examples, we have Orca. I will showcase it on a dozen benchmarks and go through in detail how it works and why. I will also end on comments from Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever on whether Opensource will catch-up... Orca Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.02707.pdf False Promise Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.15717.pdf https://sharegpt.com/ FLAN: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.13688.pdf Vicuna: https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-03-30-vicuna/ No Moat memo: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither LLM Leaderboard: https://chat.lmsys.org/?leaderboard AGIEval: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.06364.pdf BIG-Bench Hard: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.09261.pdf Language Models as Tool Makers: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.17126.pdf Altman Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWUhASix9ws DERA Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17071 Let's Verify Step by Step: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.20050 https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 16 min

    Genie 3: The World Becomes Playable (DeepMind)

    Soon, anything will be playable. A photo becomes an interactive world, a selfie becomes a new game. Genie 3 from Google, debuting just 2 hours ago, is what I mean, and I have the full analysis, plus the pushback I gave the authors (will it really lead to reliable AI agents? Is that even the point?). You make your own mind up, but it’s certainly fascinating, and not to be overlooked in the week that will bring us GPT-5. https://80000hours.org/aiexplained AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 01:27 - Background and Access 04:58 - Caveats 07:24 - Demo 10:12 - Conclusion Announcement: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-world-models/ Isaac Labs: https://developer.nvidia.com/isaac/lab Genie 2 Coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIm2T7h_a0M TED Talk Roblox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OAP0ho5AUg DeepThink Post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/deep-ish-on-new-135688441 AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 20 min

    AGI Will Not Be A Chatbot - Autonomy, Acceleration, and Arguments Behind the Scenes

    AGI will be so much more than a clever chatbot. Revelations this week from Demis Hassabis, Mustafa Suleyman, Wired, Time Magazine and more paint a picture of the capabilities that AGI will have, and sketch out a better idea of timelines. I cover it all, from Gemini updates, to Musk trying to stop DeepMind sale to Google, The Coming Wave to the Frontier AI Taskforce. https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Wired, What OpenAI Wants: https://www.wired.com/story/what-openai-really-wants/ Musk’s Struggle for the Future of AI: https://time.com/6310076/elon-musk-ai-walter-isaacson-biography/ OpenAI Planning for AGI: https://openai.com/blog/planning-for-agi-and-beyond AI power Paradox: Mustafa Suleyman: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/artificial-intelligence-power-paradox 80,000 Hours Suleyman Podcast: https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/mustafa-suleyman-getting-washington-and-silicon-valley-to-tame-ai/ Governing Superintelligence: https://openai.com/blog/governance-of-superintelligence How AI Systems Should Behave: https://openai.com/blog/how-should-ai-systems-behave Suleyman Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ3Vy78U-pQ DeepMind Autonomous AI: https://twitter.com/egrefen/status/1699128376299041244 AI Math: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/science/ai-mathematics-machine-learning.html Terence Tao: https://unlocked.microsoft.com/ai-anthology/terence-tao/ AI Assassination: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-fakhrizadeh-assassination-israel.html WannaCry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack Time Magazine Hassabis / Gemini: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6309001/demis-hassabis-ai/ AI Taskforce: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/frontier-ai-taskforce-first-progress-report/frontier-ai-taskforce-first-progress-report Application Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HKVnrV_rBHF3w4StWUs0XNhxTtKkTHs5CpMnH6PM0pQ/viewform?edit_requested=true Bletchley Park: https://www.standard.co.uk/business/sunak-chooses-bletchley-park-to-host-ai-summit-in-november-b1102607.html Suleyman Sam Harris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkojE37PUO8 AI Alzheimer’s: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/03/using-ai-to-target-alzheimers/ https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 16 min

    ChatGPT Can Now Call the Cops, but 'Wait till 2100 for Full Job Impact' - Altman

    Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, announced a set of new ‘protections’ and ‘privileges’ for ChatGPT users, requiring a significant amount of trust from users. From predicting your age based on your chat to calling law enforcement if you are at risk of harm, to allowing non-minors to flirt. But amidst all of these announcements, there are interview snippets you may have missed, as Altman dramatically revises his predictions of AI impact on jobs. Plus a Hassbis backtrack to boot. https://80000hours.org/aiexplained AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:33 - Calling the Cops? Age Predictions 02:25 - Flirting and Privacy + Policymakers 05:23 - Altman 70% of Jobs Gone, or 75 Years? 06:56 - Hallucinations Paper 08:14 - Demis Hassabis About Turn 11:15 - Outro Calling the Cops: https://openai.com/index/teen-safety-freedom-and-privacy/ Age Prediction: https://openai.com/index/building-towards-age-prediction/ Not Everyone Will Agree: https://x.com/sama/status/1967955739911364693?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet Theory 1: NYT Lawsuit: https://openai.com/index/response-to-nyt-data-demands/ Theory 2: FTC Investigation into AI Companions: https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1966167585994764743 YT Does the Same: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/youtube-ai-powered-technology-teen-users/ Carlsen Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KmpT-BoVf4 vs Senate Testimony (70% Jobs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CWVP8-XVjQ Hallucinations Paper: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/d04913be-3f6f-4d2b-b283-ff432ef4aaa5/why-language-models-hallucinate.pdf Hassbis Quote 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toShbNUGAyo vs Quote 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3Sh2PKA8Y Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 13 min

    8 Signs It's The Future: Thought-to-Text, Nvidia Text-to-Video, Character AI, and P(Doom) @Ted

    Here are 8 things that might have surprised you 6 weeks ago, let alone 6 months ago. From text to video to Ted Talks, I try to cover it all. Nvidia Text to Video https://research.nvidia.com/labs/toronto-ai/VideoLDM/ Blockade Labs Tweet: https://twitter.com/BlockadeLabs/status/1648476832730349570 And Demo: https://www.blockadelabs.com/ Zip NeRF: https://jonbarron.info/zipnerf/ Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.08818.pdf Apple Reality Pro: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/the-apple-reality-pro-headset-sounds-downright-magical-as-patent-reveals-new-details https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-18/apple-vr-ar-headset-apps-sports-tv-fitness-gaming-wellness-ipad-features Sony Award: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/ai-photo-win-sony-scli-intl/index.html Midjourney Progression: https://twitter.com/Pizza_Later AI Dilemma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ&t=3600s AI Poker: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/magazine/ai-technology-poker.html Predicting Markets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q74jH9jBVF0 Fedspeak: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4399406 Paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4412788 Character AI: https://beta.character.ai/ Google Samsung: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/technology/google-search-engine-ai.html Bard Reports: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-19/google-bard-ai-chatbot-raises-ethical-concerns-from-employees?leadSource=uverify%20wall Ted Attendees: https://blog.ted.com/the-astounding-new-era-of-ai-notes-on-session-2-of-ted2023/ ARC: https://www.alignment.org/ P(Doom): https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/why-i-am-not-as-much-of-a-doomer GPT 4 Technical Report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08774 Altman Comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXhoTrU1Kkw&t=119s https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 17 min

    Bubble or No Bubble, AI Keeps Progressing (ft. Relentless Learning + Introspection)

    Don’t let headlines about bubbles distract you from the real avenues of progress being explored in AI every week, including what had been thought to be a long-term blocker - continual learning (learning on the fly). https://app.grayswan.ai/ai-explained This, plus models introspecting (hesitate before you berate), Nano Banana 2 possibly spotted, Chinese imagen and more. AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 01:26 - Continual Learning (Nested Learning / HOPE) 07:00 - Introspection 10:54 - Image-Gen Progress Nested Learning Post: https://research.google/blog/introducing-nested-learning-a-new-ml-paradigm-for-continual-learning/ Nested Learning Paper: https://abehrouz.github.io/files/NL.pdf Original Titans Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.00663 Siri News: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-05/apple-plans-to-use-1-2-trillion-parameter-google-gemini-model-to-power-new-siri Introspection: https://www.anthropic.com/research/introspection Full Paper: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/introspection/index.html#mechanisms Earlier Work: https://www.anthropic.com/research/mapping-mind-language-model https://transformer-circuits.pub/2024/scaling-monosemanticity/index.html Release Post: https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1983584136972677319 https://lmcouncil.ai Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 26 min

    The Two Best AI Models/Enemies Just Got Released Simultaneously

    The two models that you will hear discussed for at least the next two months - Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3 Codex - just got released within 26 mins or each other. The full breakdown of around 250 pages of reports, with just the most interest moments, from the battle of which is best, Claude personhood, the surprising misbehaviour of Opus 4.6, and much more https://assemblyai.com/aiexplained Check out my fast-growing (!) app, free to use, and code INSIDER15 for Pro: https://lmcouncil.ai AI Insiders ($9): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:54 - Self-improvement? 02:44 - Knowledge Work 05:30 - Overly agentic behaviour 09:12 - Who Shouldn’t Use Claude Opus 11:39 - Step-change? 15:09 - Claude’s ‘Personhood’ Hassabis Roadmap: https://www.patreon.com/posts/hassabis-roadmap-149750869 Release of Opus 4.6: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6 212 Page System Card: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/0dd865075ad3132672ee0ab40b05a53f14cf5288.pdf Claude Code Tip: https://x.com/bcherny/status/2019475897691124107 GPT Codex 5.3: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/ System Card: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-3-codex-system-card/ Browse Comp: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.12516v1 Finance Agent: https://www.vals.ai/benchmarks/finance_agent Terminal Bench 2: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.11868 Vending Bench: https://andonlabs.com/blog/opus-4-6-vending-bench My X post: https://x.com/AIExplainedYT/status/2016851303436095647 Anthropic Apology: https://x.com/ch402/status/2014066134194995256/photo/1 Altman rebuttal: https://x.com/sama/status/2019139174339928189 https://x.com/sama/status/2019140276246442089 4% of GitHub: https://x.com/dylan522p/status/2019490550911766763 Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 26 min

    ‘Speaking Dolphin’ to AI Data Dominance, 4.1 + Kling 2.0: 7 Updates Critically Analysed

    Giving some context to a hectic week of AI news. This video won’t just be about the release, then, of GPT 4.1, in the last 48 hours, Kling 2.0, a sneak-peak at the next OpenAI model, or even the new Dolphin language tool. It will be about 7 such stories that contextualise where we are in AI and what is happening. https://www.emergentmind.com/ AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:30 - Kling 2.0 01:35 - GPT 4.1 05:25 - o3 Build-up 07:37 - ‘Product Company’ 09:31 - Safe Superintelligence 10:54 - DolphinGemma 13:16 - Data Dominance? Kling 2.0: https://app.klingai.com/global/release-notes Dolphin Gemma: https://blog.google/technology/ai/dolphingemma/?s=09 https://openai.com/index/gpt-4-1/ OpenAI o3 Build-up, The Information: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-latest-breakthrough-ai-comes-new-ideas?rc=sy0ihq Physical reasoning: https://x.com/a_karvonen/status/1911839968990814503 Fiction Live.bench: https://x.com/ficlive/status/1911853409847906626 Altman Ted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MWT_doo68k https://simple-bench.com/try-yourself https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/ 4.5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nJZopACRuQ Geospatial reasoning: https://research.google/blog/geospatial-reasoning-unlocking-insights-with-generative-ai-and-multiple-foundation-models/ Pioneers: https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1910017976256119151 Evals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scsW6_2SPC4 Anthropic Updates: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-15/anthropic-is-readying-a-voice-assistant-feature-to-rival-openai?srnd=phx-ai https://x.com/sethsaler/status/1912188383457059301 https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/12/openai-co-founder-ilya-sutskevers-safe-superintelligence-reportedly-valued-at-32b/ https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/ https://deepmind.google/technologies/gemini/pro/ https://research.google/blog/accelerating-scientific-breakthroughs-with-an-ai-co-scientist/ https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/ironwood-tpu-age-of-inference/ OpenAI Documentary: https://www.patreon.com/posts/one-machine-to-121940490 Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 18 min

    An Actually Big Week in AI: AutoGen, The A-Phone, Mistral 7B, GPT-Fathom and Meta Hunts CharacterAI

    From dramatic new use cases for GPT Vision, Meta bringing language models to billions of people, Autogen as the new AutoGPT, to what I’m calling the Altman Phone, this is a huge time in AI. I’ll also cover Mistral’s 7B model, the new CIA-bot, Orca potentially replacing OpenAI models at Microsoft, and yesterday’s fascinating GPT-Fathom paper. https://www.metaculus.com/ai/?utm_source=ai_explained&utm_campaign=ai_explained https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 0:35 – GPT Vision Use Cases 1:32 – Meta AI to 4 Billion People? 3:00 – CIA-Bot 3:48 – The Altman Phone 4:47 – AutoGen 8:26 – Mistral 7B 9:58 – Orca @ MSFT 11:20 – GPT-Fathom GPT 4V Agent: https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/1707480439793840402 GPT Vision UI: https://twitter.com/skirano/status/1706823089487491469 Meta Models ft. Mr Beast: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/09/introducing-ai-powered-assistants-characters-and-creative-tools/ Character.AI Valuation: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-28/character-ai-in-early-talks-for-funding-at-more-than-5-billion-valuation AutoGen: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/autogen-enabling-next-generation-large-language-model-applications/ Altman Tweet Timelines: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1705752292484624863 The Altman phone, The Verge - https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23893939/jony-ive-openai-sam-altman-iphone-of-artificial-intelligence-device CIA Bot: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-26/cia-builds-its-own-artificial-intelligence-tool-in-rivalry-with-china?leadSource=reddit_wall LLMs for Censorship: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oqvsR2LmHWamyKDcj/large-language-models-will-be-great-for-censorship PRISM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM Mistral 7B: https://mistral.ai/news/announcing-mistral-7b/ Perplexity Labs: https://labs.perplexity.ai/ Orca at Microsoft: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-microsoft-is-trying-to-lessen-its-addiction-to-openai-as-ai-costs-soar?utm_source=ti_app&rc=sy0ihq My Orca Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt_UNg7Mchg&t=842s My Phi-1 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S68y6huEpU&t=88s GPT-Fathom: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.16583.pdf https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 22 min

    AI Accelerates: New Gemini Model + AI Unemployment Stories Analysed

    There’s a new best language model, so let’s go through the up and downs of Gemini 2.5 Pro 06-05. Record-breaking common-sense, but dumb mistakes remain. And it’s not even their best model, which remains behind the scenes - Gemini 2.5 Ultra. Plus Sundar Pichai’s AGI date and an analysis of whether the current AI unemployment headlines are justified, and Elevenlabs v3. https://emergentmind.com AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 02:04 - Gemini 2.5 Ultra 03:34 - Benchmarks 07:41 - AGI Date and Meaning Pichai 09:13 - Jobs and AI Unemployment Fears 15:28 - Elevenlabs v3 Sundar Pichai Fridman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V6tWC4CdFQ Pichai More Jobs (until 2026 at least): https://www.techradar.com/pro/alphabet-ceo-sundar-pichai-says-ai-wont-lead-to-job-cuts-will-be-an-accelerator Gemini Comparison: https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-2-5-pro-latest-preview/ https://x.com/viathebrink/status/1930733154203292121 https://simple-bench.com/ White Collar Bloodbath: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic https://fortune.com/2025/05/25/ai-entry-level-jobs-gen-z-careers-young-workers-linkedin/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/opinion/linkedin-ai-entry-level-jobs.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/business/economy/white-collar-layoffs.html College Unemployment: https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market/#--:explore:unemployment New Scientist AI Hallucinaitons: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2479545-ai-hallucinations-are-getting-worse-and-theyre-here-to-stay/ Duolingo: https://fortune.com/2025/05/24/duolingo-ai-first-employees-ceo-luis-von-ahn/ Klarna: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2025/05/18/business-tech-news-klarna-reverses-on-ai-says-customers-like-talking-to-people/ Sholto Douglas: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ktt1rb/anthropics_sholto_douglas_says_by_202728_its/ Figure 02: https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1930693311771332853 Elevenlabs v3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv_IoWIO5Ek Gemini Speech Generation: https://aistudio.google.com/generate-speech Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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